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1. 1
Ebola
Response
Supply
Chains
October
2014
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Goentzel
goentzel@mit.edu
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Ebola
Update
from
Liberia
Jarrod
Goentzel
©2014
Source:
Ebola
Response
Roadmap
SituaIon
Report,
WHO,
22
October
2014.

2. 2
Ebola
Response
OperaIons
• Front
lines
– Ebola
Treatment
Units
(ETUs)
– Hospitals,
clinics
and
care
centers
– Labs
for
diagnosis
– Contact
tracing
– Burial
services
• Key
resources
– Trained
health
care,
sanitaIon,
lab
&
community
workers
– Personal
ProtecIve
Equipment
(PPE)
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Goentzel
©2014
Jarrod
Goentzel
©2014
Source:
Ebola
Response
Roadmap
SituaIon
Report,
WHO,
22
October
2014.

3. 3
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Goentzel
©2014
Photos:
Sylvain
Cherkaoui/Cosmos
for
MSF
Boston
to
Monrovia
in
August
• Academic
consorIum
supporIng
health
educaIon
in
Liberia
raised
funds
for
PPE
to
support
hospitals.
• The
freight
forwarder
collected
pallets
on
August
18.
• As
of
August
25,
most
passenger
airlines
had
cancelled
service
to
Liberia.
Our
pallets
were
si^ng
at
JFK
airport.
• Finally,
our
forwarder
booked
space
in
early
September
on
Brussels
Airlines
a_er
they
re-­‐established
operaIons.
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Goentzel
©2014
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the
full
story
at
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Arik
Air:
Banned
flights
to
Liberia
and
Sierra
Leone
beginning
July
28.
Asky
Airlines:
Stopped
flights
to
Liberia
and
Sierra
Leone
on
July
29.
BriIsh
Air:
All
routes
suspended
to
Sierra
Leone
and
Liberia
on
August
5.
Gambia
Bird:
Suspended
routes
to
Sierra
Leone
and
Liberia
on
August
15.
Kenya
Airways:
Suspended
commercial
flights
to
Guinea,
Liberia,
and
Sierra
Leone
on
August
19.
Brussels
Airlines:
Cancelled
flights
to
Guinea,
Sierra
Leone
and
Liberia
beginning
August
23.

4. 4
UNICEF
has
a
record
month
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Goentzel
©2014
Source:
UNICEF
Press
Release,
26
August
2014
hBp://www.unicef.org/media/media_74884.html
UNICEF
shipped
1,000
metric
tonnes
of
life-­‐saving
supplies
for
children
caught
in
the
world’s
most
urgent
crises
-­‐-­‐
the
largest
emergency
supply
operaIon
in
the
organizaIon’s
history
in
a
single
month.
The
amount
delivered
would
fill
19
cargo
jumbo
jets.
Liberia’s
effort
to
contain
the
Ebola
outbreak
has
been
strengthened
by
248
MT
of
supplies
from
UNICEF
such
as
latex
gloves,
safety
goggles,
and
overalls
to
protect
health
workers,
concentrated
chlorine
disinfectant
and
a
range
of
essenIal
medicines.
Photo:
UNICEF/NYHQ2014-­‐1300/Jallanzo
Jarrod
Goentzel
©2014
Source:
Ebola
Response
Fact
Sheet
-­‐
27
October
2014.
hBp://www.logcluster.org/ops/ebola14

5. 5
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Goentzel
©2014
Stockpile
of
personal
protecIve
equipment
in
Ohio
(Photo:
Ohio
Department
of
Health)
New
hub
in
Monrovia,
Liberia
(Photo:
WFP
LogisIcs)
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Goentzel
©2014
hBps://www.wfp.org/photos/gallery/responding-­‐ebola-­‐outbreak

6. 6
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Goentzel
©2014
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Goentzel
©2014
As
of
October
5,
the
UN
had
transported
a
total
of
655
passengers
with
its
air
service.

7. 7
Takeaways
• Travel
bans
restrict
the
supply
chain
of
criIcal
cargo
and
trained
workers.
• PPE
stockpiling
may
lead
to
manufacturing
constraints
and
resource
misalignment.
• Health
systems
in
West
Africa
must
be
strengthened
to
combat
this
epidemic
and
to
safely
provide
health
services
going
forward.
Jarrod
Goentzel
©2014
MIT
Humanitarian
Response
Lab
Jarrod
Goentzel
©2014
UN
Training
(Italy)
Port
(DjibouI)
Needs
Assessment
(HaiI)
Emergency
Shelter
(Brooklyn,
NY)
WFP
Warehouse
(Ethiopia)
Food
Market
(Darfur
Region,
Sudan)
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